If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

‎"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion.

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.

And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?